Today I wanted to take the text of a Confluence page and convert it to Markdown.

Getting the text was rather easy (after some duckduckgoing): Confluence provides a REST-API that returns among other things the content of pages in json. Here’s the curl-command to do this:

curl "https …

Recently I tried to resize a LVM logical volume with its volume group and the physical disk belonging to the vg. Because the logical volume contained all partitions except for /boot I knew it would be hard.

I also knew that I had no backup and no snapshot of the …

Curl has support for sftp and scp, among many other protocols. In one of our php-applications we use libcurl to transfer files via sftp to a remote datacenter.

We recently migrated this application into a docker-container. With it we transferred the private key into the container, so the application can …

EDIT: This article was first posted in 2016. As of 2019 I still have to use Windows at work, but now I just use WSL with wsltty.

At work I have to use Windows as operating system on my workstation, even though I manage almost only linux servers. There are …

Deploying your first Python-app can be tedious if you want to do everything by yourself. There are many great tutorials that help you set up all the necessary programs you’ll need to host your webapp.

And trust me, it’s not easy: You’ll have to use a webserver …